Dry beach and frontal dune ridge

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Dry beach and frontal dune ridge
MGS File Photo by S.M. Dickson (1987)
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Surf Street Seawall
Surf Street, Saco
Erosional hot spot at end of seawall
No dry beach in front of wall
MGS File Photo by P.A. Slovinsky (3/18/2003)
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MGS File Photo by S.M. Dickson (3/2/2004)
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Erosional hot spot at end of seawall
No dry beach in front of wall
MGS File Photo by S.M. Dickson (3/12/2004)
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Are we saying goodbye????
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So what are we doing. How do we study the
beaches?
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LIDAR(LIght Detection and Ranging)
Elevation (m, NAVD)
not to scale
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State of Maine Beach Profiling Project
horizon
Profilers
?Elevation (y)
?Distance (x)
Recorder
Trained volunteers collect monthly beach profiles
using the Emery method of beach profiling
simple, quick, relatively accurate. Profiler
lines up the top of lower rod with horizon and
determines the elevation.
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State of Maine Beach Profiling Project
Willard Beach Higgins Beach Scarborough
Beach Western Beach/Ferry Beach East Grand
Beach Kinney Shores Ferry Beach Biddeford
Pool/Fortunes Rocks Goose Rocks Beach Goochs
Beach Laudholm Beach Drakes Island Beach Wells
Beach Ogunquit Beach Long Sands Beach
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The MGS Nearshore Survey System (NSS)
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Nearshore Bathymetric Surveys
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Other Developments
100-yr stormlandward flood mapping 100-yr Erosion
Hazard Area Mapping
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Scoring System Development